Analysis of The Cow In Apple-Time
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
Something inspires the only cow of late
To make no more of a wall than an open gate,
And think no more of wall-builders than fools.
Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools
A cider syrup. Having tasted fruit,
She scorns a pasture withering to the root.
She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten.
The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten.
She leaves them bitten when she has to fly.
She bellows on a knoll against the sky.
Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010111 111110111101 0111111011 011111011 0101010101 11010100101 11111111010 0111100110 1111011111 1101010101 01100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 482 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 382 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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